`Nostalgia Trap' Writer To Lecture

March 13, 1997|The Morning Call

Stephanie Coontz, author of "The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap," will give a free public lecture at 7:30 p.m., March 25 in the Recital Hall of the Dorothy and Dexter Baker Center for the Arts.

A former Woodrow Wilson fellow, Stephanie Coontz has taught at Kobe University in Jaan and the University of Hawaii at Hilo. She serves on the advisory board to the National Family Index of Family Circle, and is a Faculty Scholar for the National Faculty. She received the Dale Richmond Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1995.

FOR THE RECORD - (Published Friday, March 21, 1997) Author Stephanie Coontz will speak at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Recital Hall of the Dorothy and Dexter Baker Center for the Arts at Muhlenberg College. An earlier article listed an incorrect location.

"The Way We Never Were" is Coontz's most recent book which has placed her at the center of the family values debate in American politics.

Coontz shows that families from all classes have always been dependent on government aid and the larger community for support. In fact, the 1950's suburban family, hailed as the model for traditional family values, was far more dependent on government handouts than any "underclass" in recent American history.